Athletics at the 2010 South Asian Games

At the 2010 South Asian Games, the athletics events were held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh from February 6 to February 9. A total of 23 events were contested, of which 15 by male and 8 by female athletes.

India (10 golds) had the greatest medal haul of the six countries which reached the medal table, shortly followed by Sri Lanka (8 golds). Stand out performers included , who took the 200/400 metres double, and Pakistan's Naseem Hameed, who was a rank outsider before the games but won the women's 100 metres race over more-fancied opposition.^[1] Following her victory, the Senate of Pakistan passed a resolution to improve her family's poor living standards and reward her with professional training.^[2]

The marathon race caused much controversy as Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari, returning from a doping violation from the 2006 South Asian Games, finished in first place. Furthermore, a miscalculation caused by a change in finishing location resulted in a course of only 35 km (over 5 km short of the true marathon distance). Following an investigation, the athletes' positions remained unchanged, although their times were barred from the record books.^[1]

Records[]

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
	High jump	Sri Lanka	1.81 m	=GR
	Discus throw	Bangladesh	44.98 m	NR
	100 m hurdles	Bangladesh	13.99 m	NR

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Shehan Ambepitiya (SRI)	10.46	Abdul Najeeb Qureshi (IND)	10.56	Liaqat Ali (PAK)	10.63
200 metres	Abdul Najeeb Qureshi (IND)	21.16	Shehan Ambepitiya (SRI)	21.19	Liaqat Ali (PAK)	21.27
400 metres	Bibin Mathew (IND)	47.25	Prasanna Sampath Amarasekara (SRI)	47.36	(IND)	47.53
1500 metres	Chaminda Wijekoon (SRI)	4:10.01	(IND)	4:10.57	(SRI)	4:10.97
5000 metres	(IND)	14:23.83	(IND)	14:24.22	Chaminda Wijekoon (SRI)	14:47.68
110 metre hurdles	Mohsin Ali (PAK)	14.56	Sandeep Parmar (IND)	14.76	(IND)	14.88
400 metre hurdles	(IND)	52.24	Nawaz Haq (PAK)	52.52	(IND)	52.52
4×100 metre relay	Sri Lanka (SRI) Shehan Ambepitiya	40.02	India (IND)	40.18	Maldives (MDV) Hassan Saaid Azneem Ahmed Ali Shareef	41.39 NR
4×400 metre relay	India (IND) Bibin Mathew	3:08.62	Sri Lanka (SRI) Rohan Pradeep Kumara	3:08.94	Pakistan (PAK) Asad Iqbal Ali Muhammad	3:16.70[3]
Marathon	Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari (NEP)	N/A	(SRI)	N/A	Ram Singh Yadav (IND)	N/A
High jump	Harishankar Roy (IND)	2.16	Nikhil Chittarasu (IND)	2.13	Nalin Priyantha (SRI)	2.13
Long jump	(IND)	7.44	(SRI)	7.25	(BAN)	7.19
Triple jump	Zafar Iqbal (PAK)	16.05	(IND)	15.27	(SRI)	15.19
Discus throw	(PAK)	52.43	Simranjeet Singh (IND)	49.18	(BAN)	44.98 NR
Javelin throw	Kashinath Naik (IND)	74.27	Muhammad Imran (PAK)	73.38	(IND)	71.65

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Naseem Hameed (PAK)	11.81	(SRI)	11.93	(SRI)	11.93
200 metres	(SRI)	24.49	(SRI)	24.63	Jauna Murmu (IND)	24.87
400 metres	(SRI)	54.27	Priyanka Pawar (IND)	54.98	(IND)	55.51
100 metre hurdles	(IND)	13.98	(BAN)	13.99 NR	(BAN)	14.05
4×100 metre relay	Sri Lanka (SRI)	46.33	Bangladesh (BAN)	46.80 NR	Pakistan (PAK) Naseem Hameed Sadaf Siddiqui	47.16
4×400 metre relay	India (IND) Jauna Murmu	3:38.62	Sri Lanka (SRI)	3:44.81	Bangladesh (BAN)	3:52.29 NR
High jump	(SRI)	1.81 =GR	Sahana Kumari (IND)	1.79	(SRI)	1.72
Long jump	(SRI)	6.20	(IND)	6.09	M. A. Prajusha (IND)	5.96

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Bangladesh)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India (IND)	10	11	8	29
2	Sri Lanka (SRI)	8	8	6	22
3	Pakistan (PAK)	4	2	4	10
4	Nepal (NEP)	1	0	0	1
5	Bangladesh (BAN)*	0	2	4	6
6	Maldives (MDV)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		23	23	23	69

References[]

External links[]

• Official 2010 South Asian Games athletics page (archived)